(09/01): Various small updates. FAQ update
(topic about fish chemicals added). Added some new links in the link
section.
(10/01): Start of the general aquatic snail
info page. Updated the shell anatomy: hyperstrophic
sinistral explanation.
(11/01): Update ofPila, Lanistes
and Felipponea with new pictures (thanks
Martin KCL!).
Update of Pomacea urceus.
(16/01): Restructured the link section. Updated the
circulation section. Added egg
defence mechanisms.
(18/01): New flagellata
shell pictures and new picture page added.
(23/01): Updated the species world-map (species
locations are now included) and some minor changes.
(26/01): Picture of a sinistralMarisa
cornuarietis snail. New picture
of mating snails. New dissection photographs ( 1 & 2
).
(28/01): Mini-guide to identify
the most common apple snails available in the aquarium trade.
(03/02): Improved navigation in the species
section.
(10/02): Update of the 'various snails'
section.
(15/02): New: Quick basic guide. Joined the Invertebrate
Ring (see bottom). Various small updates.
(02/03): Today I received a set of Pomacea
flagellata flagellata apple snails from Brian Kabbes.
Thanks!
(05/03): Improved species navigation. Improved
'various' navigation.
(09/03): New pictures added of Pomacea flagellata
subspecies flagellata.
(20/03): Updating the Pomacea section and
building a species database.
(30/03): Added pictures in the 'non-apple snail'
section. New picture of egg laying snails in the guide
section.
(02/04): 'How-to-recognize an apple snail?' added.
Reworked photograph section (better structured).
(10/04): Several small corrections. Added some new links.
(18/04): New sections added: 'What to do with an
apple snail?' and 'How to make snail photos?'
(19/04): Several changes in the 'look and feel' of the site.
(20/04): Improved 'index' section: added a site
map and navigation basics.
(22/04): Several updates throughout the site.
(27/04): Added new info about snail eradication.
Updated the link section.
(29/04): Basic structure of the 'What to do with
an apple snail' section. Improved the various
section.
(03/05): The site is now sponsored by Stichting
de Digitale Stad, which enables me to add more topics in the future. Thanks
to the DDS team!
(04/05): New URL: http://www.dds.nl/~snc.
(06/05): New photograph of the snail kite
(Rostrhamus sociabilis), a major apple snail predator in the neotropics.
(14/05): Added some apple snails recipes in the 'Eating
apple snails' section. Various small updates.
(18/05): New photograps in the 'Diseases' section.
(20/05): Various small navigational improvements.
(27/05): Internal site reorganization; mainly name changes. This should have
no direct effect on the appearance.
(28/05): Updated the 'Links' section: added a list
of Musea and collections.
(29/05): Added some more information about the eye
anatomy.
(03/06): Peter Clarkson donated a serie of stunning photograps to display on
this website.
(04/06): Updated the 'snail disease' section
and added some new photographs (Ecology:
aestivation photo; Respiration: Marisa photo).
(06/06): Added a small movie of a little Marisa cornuarietis
snail inside an egg.
(11/06): Photograph of a Viviparidae (Viviparus
viviparus) and an unusual Planorbidae (Ancylus
sp.) in the 'Various snails' section.
(12/06): Some minor updates and a new anatomy picture illustrating the mantle
structure.
(18/06): Added new photographs from
Teri Tibbetts (Thanks!).
(19/06): Site reorganization (not visible) and complete rework of the photographs
section to ease further growth.
(21/06): 7 New photographs: a breathing Marisa cornuarietis,
an old Pomacea diffusa
and more... Visit the photographs section.
(07/07): Frank Steuerwald sended me a bunch of beautiful blue Pomacea diffusa
snails. Thanks a lot!
(08/07): Added some photographs of a blue Pomacea diffusa snail in
the 'photographs' section.
(09/07): Another beautifull photograph of Peter Clarkson has been added to the
photographs section.
(16/07): A comprehensive version of this site in Dutch
(Nederlands)! Hopefully other languages will follow soon...
(17/07): Added a German version of the comprehensive version of this site. Thanks
to Andrea Roithmeier (http://roian.cjb.net)!
(22/07): A set of beautiful Asolene shells arrived with the mail from Fabio
Faraco!
Check out the photographs from these shells: Asolene
(Asolene) spixi, Asolene
(Asolene) sp. and Asolene
(Pomella) megastoma. (23/07): Reorganised the 'species' section:Pomella andFelipponea
are arranged under Asolene. Turbinicola
has been added to the Pila section. Any
remarks regarding this are welcome.
(28/07): Content and layout are now partly seperated to ease the maintainance
of the site.
(29/07): New front page: now with photograph of the moment.
(30/07): Added a new Felipponea photographs from Fabio Faraco. Check out
these great photographs!
(11/08): Got a package with apple snails from Sandra Shumilla. These snails
could turn out to be the *very* large Pomacea maculata (15cm/6inch) apple
snails! Photographs will follow soon.
(13/08): Recieved a photograph from Felipponea
eggs from Fabio Faraco. This is probably the first photograph of these aquatic
eggs on the net!
(15/08): Edgar J. Gil I. mailed some great photographs from aPomacea
sp. he collected from a pond close to Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of
the Amazonas state in Venezuela.
(16/08): Added some new photographs from the
blue variant from Pomacea diffusa
(bridgesii) and from a walking Mexican Pomacea
flagellata flagellata snail.
(26/08): Complete reorganization of the 'Various' section:
better overview of the different sections.
(27/08): Updated various pages as new articles have arrived. Still much work
to do...
(02/09): Added a new photograph of aPomacea
diffusa snail, donated by Caroline Tascon.
(03/09): Added a "Print this page"
option. You can find it at the left bottom of every page.
(12/09): Five great photographs of Pomacea
paludosa are added. Thanks to "newleafgraphics.com"
for this valuable donation.
(17/09): Great photographs of the Florida
swamps and a wonderful illustration
of a Limpkin made by Mary Adore Coloney added. Thanks for this great addition!
(26/09): 18 beautiful photographs
taken by CHAN Sow-Yan in Singapore and Malaysia. Thanks for this great contribution!
(07/10): New photograph of a Pomacea
diffusa snail added in the 'literature'
section. Thanks to Pam Spencer.
(08/10): New apple snail recipe from the Philippines,
where this snail is known as "Kuhol". Thanks to Mr. M.S. dela Cruz
and Dr. R.C. Joshi for this excellent contribution.
(09/10): Uli Aritonang from Indonesia mailed some interesting photographs showing
the introduced apple snail species Pomacea canaliculata. See the 'Eradication'
section.
(10/10): Several minor updates (some better descriptions in the species section
and in the anatomy section).
(12/10): Technical update: It's now possible to print pages in Netscape and
to open a specific page in a separate frame. Finally :)
(15/10): New section: Apple snails and culture
with a contribution from Uli Aritonang about the "Keong
Emas", Golden Snail, Imax Theather in Jakarta, Indonesia.
(20/10): Movies! Not only photographs on this website, but also some (small)
movies. Try to find them :) (insiders tip go to the Asolene pages).
(21/10): Photographs added of Asolene spixi
and Asolene megastoma.
These snails are provided by Fabio Faraco. Thanks Fabio!
(22/10): Updated the Keong Emas section and soon
to be expected within days: A golden snail tale from Indonesia! Thanks to Uli
Aritonang.
(23/10): The Indonesian tale of the Golden Snail Princess.
Contributed by Uli Aritonang.
(10/11): Added two Planorbis
photographs from Heather Lynch. They are simply better the one I made myself
:)
(22/11): Added new 'photograph of the moment'. Preparing some Pomacea
flagellata photographs.
(29/11): The 'various freshwater snails'
section has been updated with a small identification guide.
(30/12): Some small corrections and addition of a banner
in standard size (486 x 60 pixels).

2001

(26/01): Lots of small updates throughout website and addition
of a page with author's experiences.
(31/01): Added high-resolution photographs, including some nice scripts. Look
and find...
(05/02): Believe it or not: A Russian
version of the basic apple snail page! Thanks to Timofey Slavkin for his
translation efforts!
(10/02): Added a Discussion board
to applesnail.net and a new guestbook.
Hopefully it all works well.
(18/02): A new voting/polling system is now added. This should make it much
easier for me to maintain and add polls to the site.
(22/02): Added new photographs in the 'respiration',
the 'snail problems', the 'author's
experiences' and the 'Pomacea diffusa
(bridgesii)' section.
(27/02): Microscopic images of the
intestine, the digestive gland
and the albumen gland added.
(11/03): Added a new item: The apple snail knowledge test! Do the apple snail
test and get on the hall of fame: [click here].
(13/03): New photograph of the moment (see top of page) and a new photograph
in the 'ecology' section. Thanks Joanne
Williams!
(29/03): Bibliography
on the golden apple snail (Arsenia G. Cagauan, Ravindra C. Joshi and Mario
S. Dela Cruz) added.
(07/04): Lanistes lybicus
photographs added. Thanks to Gerald Depaus (http://perso.infonie.be/pomacea).
(14/04): Start of the 'embryology section'.
Currently only one picture added...
(15/04): Updated the indexpage: sitemap and key-words
list. Large site reorganisation (easier to maintain, no visible changes).
(16/04) Update of the discussion board
(improved scipt) and the Guestbook
(link issues solved).
(19/04): Several small updates, mainly in the 'snail
problems' section.
(23/04): New additions in the 'embryology section'.
New photographs and texts...
(03/05): Further additions in the 'embryology section'
and several small updates.
(14/05): Small update in the 'respiration'
section (anatomy); added 2 new photographs and added 2 new small movies.
(30/05): Reworking the embryology section: dividing it in several pages.
(31/05): Received new photographs and info about Asolene megastoma,
Pomacea scalaris and more...
to be added soon.
(02/06): Added new 'embryology' section to main
menu. Start wrtiting text for embryology section (not added yet).
(03/06): Fixing several broken internal links. Removed unused illustrations.
Added robots.txt to avoid discussion board being indexed.
(04/06): Added scripts to avoid e-mail addresses being ripped by search-bots
(I hate being spammed).
(05/06): Added history section with list of updates and additions (where you
are currentrly looking at). Added new 'photo of the moment'.
(05/06): Added picture of mating Lanistes lybicus
snails (Thanks Gerald Depaus!). Added photograph and information provided by
M.G. Quintana (Thanks!). Check out the Pomacea scalaris
page.
(06/06): Rearrangement of the 'Author ' section:
splited in several new sections under a new menu-item: 'site
information'. Also created new illustrations for this section.
(07/06): Corrected a nasty bug in the 'Did you know'
script. It explains the unacceptable number of 'file not found' errors in the
weblog.
(07/06): Added topic about shell dissolving to the 'FAQ'
section and corrected some typos.
(10/06): Added new page: A page with excerpts from the most repaeting topics
on the discussion board: 'The best of discussion'.
(12/06): Text of stage I and stage
II of the embryology section are added. No pictures yet...
(13/06): New mpeg movie
of an Asolene megastoma snail opening its mouth. Also new way of presenting
movies introduced.
(28/06): Added two new pictures from Martin KCL: Pila wernei
and Pila ovata. More info about
these shells and other Ampullarid snails: http://members.aol.com/mkohl1/Ampullariidae.html.
(28/06): Added picture of apple snail eggs
on a hand. Picture donated by Andrea Korb (Thanks!). Check out her website:
http://www.faultlessperfection.com.
(30/06): Texts describing stage III and
stage IV of the embryonic
development added. Still need to do some proofreading... :)
(01/07): Added text of stage V of the
embryonic development of apple snails.
(02/07): Made a link to the chat area from the discussion
board. Still need to add a sort of calendar to people can arrange chat sessions...
(03/07): Added text of stage VI of the
embryology in apple snails. Definately have to do some proofreading... Fixed
error in chat-page (thanks Andrew).
(07/07): People want games? People get games: a crossword
puzzle :)
(08/07): Photographs of albino Pomacea diffusa
snail added and several small updates all over the site.
(11/07): Second release of "The original apple snail destop theme"
(for windows). Download here and
read included intructions.
(12/07): From now on IE5+ browsers should display a snail icon on the URL line
window when visiting the website (favicon.ico for insiders), bug fixed.
(13/07): Update of the 'literature' section: included about 10 previously unlisted
articles.
(14/07): Finally there: 3D-models of apple snail shells (Pomacea diffusa,
Pomacea canaliculata and Asolene
megastoma) with navigation!
(18/07): Added 2 more 3D-models and
integrated these in the site. Also updated the 'Care'
section.
(20/07): 3D models have been further optimized (both loading as well navigation).
They now also appear in a pop-up window.
(21/07): Added a 3D-model of an embryo in
stage 4.
(22/07): Improved navigation of 3D-model
of stage 4 embryo, added 3d-model of
stage and 3-D model of stage 2.
(23/07): Message board crashed!
Had to reset it. Data saved, but not accessible. Also added 3-D
model of stage 3 of embryonic development.
(25/07): A picture of Pomacea maculata
is now listed as haustrum.
Added several pictures of Pomacea species.
Small corrections in the 3D-section.
(26/07): Corrected text in the 'Experiences
of the author' section, based on suggestion from Sarah Adele (thanks Sarah!).
(26/07): Added a photographs of the green eggs of Pomacea haustrum
(Thanks Bobby Jezeski!). Added Pila virens
to the species section.
(29/07): New database (MySQL) driven messageboard
(phpBB) activated. Placed announcement in the old messageboard system.
(30/07): Replaced the old board with the new one.
Added customized 404 error page with report
form.
(05/08): Some small corrections, based on Sarah's suggestions (thanks!). And
new 3-model (Asolene
spixi) added, as well a picture of these snails mating.
(06/08): New 3D-models: Pila
brohardi and Pila ampullacea.
(08/08): Added 3D-model of Marisa
cornuarietis, improved the Pomacea
diffusa model and fixed a small bug in the Asolene
spixi model.
(14/08): Pomacea maculata
illustration from Perry's Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells.
(16/08): New 3D-model of aquatic eggs,
based on Marisa cornuarietis
eggs. 3D-models of Pomacea eggs are almost finished... ;)
(19/08): 3D-model of aerial Pomacea
eggs on a trunk added.
(20/08): Reworked the 'Photo' section: added
'3D-models' and 'Series'.
Updated the literature section and the Pila
globosa and ampullacea
pages.
(22/08): New Pomacea paludosa
shell pictures, contributed by the The
Jacksonville Shell Club. Thanks!
(24/08): New way to differentiate male
and female snails (although only usable during the reproductive season in
snails with a translucent shell).
(27/08): Added some information about the sperm
cell types, found in apple snails. Update in the literature
section.
(29/08): Fixed a small javascript bug in the front page
(shame on me :) ), added 2 new articles to the literature
list and worked some more on snail-colour
page.
(01/09): Update in the literature section (added
article about termination of aestivation in Pila ovata).
(03/09): Improved the navigation in 'ecology' section
and in the 'care' section.
(06/09): Updated the 'Colour
genes' section, based on the helpful comments and suggestions of Michael
Marcotrigiano. Thanks!
(07/09): Small change in the 'Embryology' sections
qnd in the 'General species' page.
(08/09): Added photographs of Lymnea
auricularia and Lymnea
ovata; both photographs are donated by E. Wullschleger. Thanks!
(09/09): Improved the Poll script: now one can see the
results of the past polls.
(15/09): Fixed small bug in 'Care' section and in
the 'Species' section.
(16/09): Added some new info about nutritional value of apple snail meat in
the 'Eating apple snails' section.
(26/09): Updated the 'Quick care guide', the 'Care'
section and the 'Snail problems and diseases'
section.
(14/10): Finaly a decent Portuguese
translation! Thanks to Fábio André Faraco from Brasil.
(30/10): Improved 'top of page' button on all pages and several small fixes.
(01/11): Started to rework the Felipponea
section with the aid and materials from Fábio André Faraco. Thanks!
(03/11): Added 3 photographs from Pila
virens, var. Layardi snails collected in Sri-lanka and photographed
by Andreas Karge (http://www.wirbellose.de).
(04/11): New page: Pila africana
with photographs from Gerald Depaus. Thanks Gerald! (http://perso.infonie.be/pomacea).
(05/11): Added high-res picture of Asolene sp.
and Pomacea flagellata.
Unified the navigation a bit more (nearly all page a back-button on top).
(09/11): New contribution from Fábio André Faraco: a well written
and comprehensive
page about Felipponea iheringi (in Portuguese).
(09/11): Improved the section about the apple
snail vision (new picture and more text).
(18/11): Improved the 'circulation
scheme' of the apple snail (as part of a lesson preparation ;) ).
(21/11): Big surprise: Juan Carlos made a Spanish
translation of the basic guide!
It listed here, as well on his website: Aquagarden.
Thanks Juan!
(24/11): Another translation! A Romanian
version of the basic guide.
Translated by Ana Simpetru, check out
this website: www.acvariu.ro.
(27/12): New section: 'Pest alert',
with new information about spreading
in Asia and an Alert
poster by Drs. T. Wada, Y. Yusa, and R. C. Joshi.
(28/12): Added new link (http://www.ciencia-hoy.retina.ar/hoy66/sudamericano.htm)
to the link section.

(01/01): Finally an update on the 3-dimensional anatomical models:
Added an interactive model of the circulation!
(24/01): Latest update: complete interactive 3D-model
of the snail anatomy! It took a while (10 months) to complete :)
(16/02): Added page with photograph of a Lanistes purpureus
shell.
(19/02): Added photograph of a painting of Ambrosius
Bosschaert (1573-1621), on which a Pila sp. shell is depicted.
(01/03): Applesnail.net anniversary: 5
Years applesnail.net!!!!
(25/03): Fixed some broken links.
(06/04): Reworked the literature section.
Improved navigation and added 'Old books'
page.
(08/04): The 'links' section is now linked to the
database. This makes it much easier to maintain and evaluate.
(09/04): Added more illustrations and text to the 'old
books' page.
(12/04): The basic information
page is now available in Korean!
Thanks to °ΤΈ®~ =^_^= for the translation!
(13/04): Updated the 'shell' section (added
info + picture about the columellar muscle) and added Pila
conica page.
(14/04): Added old book illustrations (Haldeman) and simplified the menu-bar
to speed up loading of the front page.
(16/04): Added new information about the sex
ratio in apple snails and replaves horizontal menu-bar gifs by css based
text-boxes.
(17/04): New photographs of the siphon
added.
(23/04): Finished the electronic version of Reeve's Conchologica
Iconica, chapter 10: Ampullaria!!
(25/04): Added French translation
of the basic guide. Thanks to Derek C. Frost for making this available!
(30/04): New 'photo of the moment' (R. C. Joshi; Pila conica) and reworked
the intro page (added recent discussion topics
headers).
(02/05): Electronic version of old book: "Mollusques
de L'Amerique du Sud" (Hupe 1857). Now available!
(08/05): Added new guestbook system.
(10/07): Added 'tooltips' to the intro page (tooltips are handy info boxes that
appear when hoovering over a button).
(12/07): Made some corrections to the translated pages. (see intro page for
translated pages).
(13/07): Donya Quick made an excellent drawing
of an apple snail. Permission was given to put it on applesnail.net :) ...
(15/07): Lars Olaf Simonsen for making a Norwegian
(bokmål) translation of the basic
guide. Thanks for this valuable addition!

2004

(15/02): Cleaned up the text of the main
page and the ecology page.
(13/07): Finally another update: Cleaned the embryology section, added link
in genetrics section, updated main page.
(15/10): Last month I moved to another host provider. There is more space now,
that allowed further growth and addition of a photoalbum for members of the
forum.
(19/10): Added two photographs of Pomacea paludosa
snails that I received from Amanda Sutherland, and which were made by Lina Tomlin.
(01/12): Updates species determination
page: added Pomacea haustrum.